I routinely ride north/south so will cross those corridors. Here's what the northbound bike lane on Franklin looks like at (I believe) Washington:

The little box in the lower left-hand corner is the northern edge of a parking spot. I don't know if the Geek Squad car planned to turn right, but he could. There are no separate bike traffic lights at this intersection, nor any "Look out for bikes" warnings for pedestrians. During the construction, I've had a few close calls. I can't imagine things are going to get better when the BRT lane is open. I'm a little worried how this is going to work itself out, and I'm normally a pretty confident urban bike rider.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that there is a west-to-east bike lane as well. That hasn't been open yet, but will add one more dimension to the hazards. For those of you old enough to remember the Atari 2600, this is how I imagine things...

I rode this route this morning and in the same breath had 1) a pedestrian almost walk right into me trying to get to the island thing in the middle and 2) a car nearly turn right into me because he couldn't see me due to all the pedestrians on said island.

What a nightmare this is going to be. Tomorrow I'm not even going to use the bike lane on Franklin, would prefer to be amongst the cars here.

Riding north on Franklin yesterday, cars were turning right onto Washington by using the bike lane. That meant that they squeezed between the two sets of curbs. I suspect that might actually have been safer than turning from the right-hand auto lane, but it still looked wrong. Perhaps I'll try and keep my phone handy this afternoon so I can take some video.

A friend reports that he was nearly run down by a car that beeped at him and then hopped the curb while he was stopped in the new Washington lane.

Meanwhile, on Canal, snow was plowed so as to form 2 complete barriers across the entire northbound bike lane on both sides of Polk, and the post office cleared its sidewalk by shoveling directly into lane.